OK, here's the conundrum: My friend has an NTSC Playstation2 which happily worked on his plasma screen at home via composite due to the TV automatically handling the NTSC signal. He is now at university, left his Playstation2 at home, but will be picking it up at Christmas when he goes home. He only has a laptop at university. No TV. Is there any product around that will convert the...

Can you get them? I've only been able to find them for 1 inch poles. I'd like one for a 1.25 or 1.5 inch pole.

The product manual, under 'Exchanging data with your PC' says: "You can access the hard disk from your computer. To do so, connect the computer and the TSR 500 HDD via a USB cable on the USB port on the back panel of the device. On your PC, Open My Computer. The hard disk appears as a new storage device and you will be able to copy or delete data, (movies, recordings, music etc)." I have not...

my sky+ box was playing up,would record but would freeze every so often.then tonight it crashed and froze solid ,went through usual power off procedure when finally restarted it had wiped my recordings and when trying to record ,displays system fault,two things, one can I assume the hard drives gone, two if I buy a replacement box can I set it up myself or will I have to pay sky engineers to come...

Since the last firmware upgrade I have had to reset my Sony STB twice in the past week in order to get the EPG and Now Next to display event information from Sandy Heath. Before the update I never had this problem.

Hi I have a new TV. It's a Sony Bravia 40" W2000. About 2 weeks old. For me, CRT is much better than LCD, but I wanted a big TV that wasn't deep, so went with LCD. I am surpised at how good the picture is when it is showing an image, but when the screen goes blank, the backlight non-uniformity is very obvious and annoying. I have varied the backlight intensity,

I've got this Humax PVR-9200T, thanks to your recommendations, and it's absolutely wonderful - I'm love it. Thanks. There is something I don't understand about it, though, and I can't find any explanation in the (otherwise excellent) manual: I tend to get into the habit of browsing through the guide and marking programmes I'm interested in for recording, usually a day or so ahead but sometimes...

I have a freeview box and have attempted to wire digital coaxial cable from a wideband aerial to the connector which plugs into the box. I have isolated this from other components (DVD and video) so that I am only running the freeview box and TV but I still get an unpredicatable and sometimes poor signal through the freeview. I am sure the problem is with the wiring to the connector. I have...

My video has died, so I now want to get a Freeview PVR, I have a max budget of 300 quid, and I would like to be able to burn DVDs too. I've found these: Toshiba RD-85DT 160GB, DVD-R/DVD-RW, £225 from the Coop online Panasonic DMREX75GBS, 160GB, all DVD formats, £281 Digital Direct Sony RDR HXD860, 160GB, all DVD formats, £287 from Digital Direct As far as I can tell all of these have just one...

He http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/entertainment/2006/future_of_tv/default.stm see how many errors you can spot :-) (I think 20-50Mbps for HDTV via IPTV is the worst one, but I've only skimmed through). Cheers,

I have a Panasonic DVD/HDD recorder and a JVC TV with digital tuner both of which I'm quite happy with. But I'd like better sound quality. I see that there are plenty of "home cinema" systems which provide more speakers than you can shake a stick at, and often have a DVD player built in, which I don't need. I'd just like to get reasonable stereo sound out of the TV, and be able to play CDs as...

Hello Guys I've been having on-screen interference on my TV for the past couple of days. I checked that my TV and video recorder are correctly tuned to my Sky digibox, every thing seems fine. Can someone help? Cheers

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I am trying to advise a relative whose flat is completely screened from Crystal Palace by the Euston Tower which is close by. There is no position on the roof that is not screened. I don't know what aerial is installed, but the aerial socket that is provided carries a poor quality signal from only one multiplex, and no usable analogue TV. A set top aerial gets nothing usable at all. ...

We see these unusual conditions from time to time, but this was the first time that I've had the opportunity to study the results of one event at several radically different locations. On Tuesday at 2.30pm I parked the motorhome on the road from Braithwell to Ravenfield, at a point where the road is about 450 ft above sea level and there are clear views all round. Belmont is line-of-sight,...

It looks interesting, and the twin tuner is a nice touch for the money. Question is, are these devices able to record from an analogue source? There is no mention of analogue, or RF aerial in the description. I was hoping to replace the old VCR, but it would be inconvenient if it could not record programs from the Sky box as well. Anybody have experience with this device or the previous...

I appreciate there are a lot of factors governing digital reliability and I am curious as to certain readings on my BT badged Netgem digital set top box. I live in HA88YH and am 16 miles from Crystal Palace transmitter. I have a loft aerial going in to a Proception variable gain masthead amp. This is feeding three TVs. Reception is steady and the only problem I occasionally get is when...

I`ve got a 21inch Hitachi TV and theres a buzzing coming from it. I`ve tried tuning but nothing seems to help, any ideas? Or is it on its last legs, its a good few years old now and i`m only using it because my widescreen LG TV stopped working and a burning smell came from it last night.

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I've just been running a test on DTT, usung a GDB4, and decided it's not ready yet where I am. Main channels good, but still intermittent sound dropout, 4 and 5 unreliable. At present I record on a Sony HHH/DVD from analogue and Sky free to air/view, and all is well, but one day I'd like to go to DTT and use a twin tuner PVR and separate DVD recorder.